Burger Robot Eliminates Minimum Wage Jobs

Robot Makes 360 Gourmet Burgers In An Hour

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Small business owners in
Southern California have struggled against high taxes and a rising
minimum wage for years. But a new robotics startup in San Francisco
called Momentum Machines wants to sooth the burdens created by
oppressive government by designing a machine that will solve these
problems.

According to Momentum Machines,
making burgers costs US$9 billion a year in wages in the United States
alone. A machine like the burger robot could revolutionize the fast food
industry. The company’s website reads: “Our alpha machine replaces all
of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant. It does everything
employees can do except better.”

But don’t think that the makers of the burger machine are necessarily anti-worker. Their website reads: “The
issue of machines and job displacement has been around for centuries
and economists generally accept that technology like ours actually
causes an increase in employment. The three factors that contribute to
this are 1. the company that makes the robots must hire new employees,
2. the restaurant that uses our robots can expand their frontiers of
production which requires hiring more people, and 3. the general public
saves money on the reduced cost of our burgers. This saved money can
then be spent on the rest of the economy. We take these issues very
seriously so please feel free to tell us how we can help with this
transition.”
The automatic device will still require some humans to put the
ingredients in, but once it’s loaded it can crank out up to 400 burgers
per hour. The machine stamps the patties, puts on the toppings (cut
fresh to order) and then bags the burger. The company believes the
device will pay for itself in just under a year.
Momentum Machines is hiring for certain positions. Do you think they pay above minimum wage?